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THE V^ILSOM BULLETm— March, 1922 
In 1914, 10 bands were placed; in 1915, 29; in 1916, 51; in 1917, 118; 
in 1918, 32; in 1919, 17; in 1920, 360; in 1921, 1100. 
The past year was by far the busiest and the Biological Survey re- 
ports that they have the largest record of the year in the United States. 
Including House Sparrows and the number of times birds repeat, the 
total number of birds handled at the station was 2678. 
To the first of the year the station has had twenty returns, five of 
them were recovered away from the district and fifteen recovered lo- 
cally, and one of those returned for the third time. 
DETAIL OF TRAPPINGS IN 1921. 
Former 
Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 
Robin 
.188 
4 
13 
29 
12 
8 
1 
245 
Juuco 
. 55 3 
5 
55 
30 
78 
70 
9 
306 
Downy Woodpecker 
1 
1 
1 
4 
5 
3 
15 
Chickadee 
1 
22 
23 
White-throated Sparrow. , 
, .163 
10 
32 
169 
2 
366 
White-crowned Sparrow. . 
. 4 
28 
1 
33 
Fox Sparrow 
. 1 
1 
3 
10 
5 
20 
Song Sparrow 
. 8 
1 
12 
3 
11 
1 
36 
Field Sparrow 
1 
3 
4 
Ilonse Sparrow 
2 
2 
6 
72 
78 
217 
131 
14 
17 
17 
18 
503 
Vesper Sparro^v 
4 
4 
Tree Sparrow 
8 
3 
11 
Towhee 
. 19 
1 
6 
1 
6 
33 
Brown Thrasher 
. 44 
o 
6 
4 
3 
2 
1 
1 
63 
Northern Flicker 
. 25 
1 
5 
5 
36 
Red-winged Blackl)ird . . . 
. 21 
4 
1 
26 
Bronzed Grackle 
. 25 
3 
21 
27 
12 
8 
1 
97 
Mourning Dove 
. 16 
4 
3 
1 
1 
25 
Catbird 
. 20 
3 
6 
29 
Barn Swallow 
. 8 
3 
r 
16 
House "Wren 
. 3 
16 
1 
20 
Blue Jay 
. 1 
1 
1 
2 
2 
1 
8 
Hermit Thrush 
2 
2 
4 
Northern Shrike 
1 
2 
o 
4 
White-breasted Nuthatch . 
2 
2 
4 
Less tlian 4: Savannah Sparrow 2, Swamp Sparrow 1, Harris Sparrow 1. 
Chipping- Sparrow 2, Rerl-heacletl Woodpecker .3, Bluebird 3, Oven-bird 3, King- 
bird 3, Screech Owl 2, Black-poll Warbler 1, Yellow Warbler 1, Bittern 1, Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak 1, Indigo Bunting 1, Crow 1, Olive-backed Thrush 1 Water- 
Thrush 1, Cowbird 2, Spotted Sandpiper 3, Baltimore Oriole 3, Crested Fly- 
catcher 2, Wood Tbrnsb 1, Myrtle Warbler 2. 
The New England Bird Banding Association 
On the seventeenth day of January, 1922, in response to an invita- 
tion from Mr. L. B. Fletcher and others interested in the banding of 
birds, over a hundred ornithologists, licensed bird-banders and candi- 
dates for licenses, met at the Boston Society of Natural History Building 
in Boston and organized a new ornithological society to be known as the 
New England Bird Banding Association. The meeting was addressed by 
S Prentiss Baldwin of Cleveland, Ohio, who, during the last six years, 
b;', introducing bird-trapping as a means of banding birds, has done so 
much to show the scientific possibilities of the work. The Bureau of 
